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Insurer Acquisition of PBMs Raised Some Part D Premiums
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (929+ words) Briefing: Delivered to the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisors Report from His Penn Fireside Chat with Ezekiel Emanuel about Drug Pricing A New Review Finds Hospital Mergers Raise Prices Without Improving Care, and Urges Regulators to Stop Accepting…...
Inside Medicare’s Stalled Shift to Value-Based Care
3+ week, 6+ day ago (640+ words) Speaking to an auditorium of health services researchers at the event, titled "Health Policy at a Crossroads: Protecting Progress and Building for the Future," Fowler detailed how progress toward a value-based care transition was stymied in part by CMMI's pilot…...
Medicare Advantage Risk-Based Provider Payments
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (613+ words) Health insurers choose the counties where they sell plans on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. As a result, many people find they have fewer health insurance options than their neighbors in the next county, a new LDI study found....
Nursing Home Caseloads and Patient Outcomes
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (411+ words) Practice makes perfect often applies to surgery, where quality tends to rise with greater numbers of patients. But the same doesn't hold in nursing homes. Data from more than 77,000 clinicians show that the number of patients a doctor or nurse…...
Hospice Providers Game Medicare Payment Cap
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (244+ words) Health Care Payment and Financing LDI Virtual Panel of Experts Explores the Benefit's Challenges and Potential Research Brief: People Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid are More Likely to Get Care From Poorer Quality Hospices Economist Norma Coe's Caregiving For…...
University of Pennsylvania Teams Up with CenterWell to Help Advance Primary Care Excellence and Access for Seniors
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (207+ words) Improving Care for Older Adults "By generating rigorous evidence that focuses on improving access to and delivery of care for older adults, this initiative will help shape the future of primary care delivery," said Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director…...
Comment: LDI Studies on Medicare Post-Acute Care
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (42+ words) Supplement to Response to Request for Technical Assistance Health Care Access & Coverage Delivered to Philadelphia City Council Improving Care for Older Adults Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Presented to Staff of Rep. GT Thompson (R-PA)...